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  1. Jonathan Emmesedi @[email protected] ·

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    Kudos to "The Brutalist" director for tackling a number of big themes in the film, a central one being the relationship of art to capitalism.

    Yet many of the lines about beauty and ugliness given to Brody struck a false note. Although he was supposed to have come from the Bauhaus with reputation inn Europe as an important modernist architect, much of his rhetoric in the film about architectural beauty and its value struck me as drawing on an older, premodernist tradition of humanism.

    In fact, the relation of Bauhaus immigrants to corporate USA is more complex than that suggested by the film, as a study of the career of Mies van der Rohe or a reading of James Sloan Allen's "The Romance of Commerce and Culture" might suggest.

    However, I should point out that the linked article shows that at least one architect considers the film an outstanding exploration of the tension between power and design.

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